Tag



B. GORDON.

TAG. APPLICATION FILED 050.26, I919.

Patented Sept. 28, 1920.

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BENJAMIN GORDON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TAG.-

Specification of Letters Patent. P t Sept 28 1920.

Application filed December 26, 1919. Serial No. 347,572.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, BENJAMIN GORDON, of New York city, New York, have invented certain Improvements in Tags, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawings designating like parts.

This invention relates to tags and is of particular utility when embodied in the construction of non-detachable price tags for garments, although I contemplate the utili- Zation of my improvements in any field for which they are adapted by their nature.

An important object of my inventionis to provide a tag of this type havinga metallic capsule to support a ticket bearing the price .mark or other legend,and chambered to serve as a lock casing in cooperation with a flexible metallic attaching 'member, preferably formed integrally of spring wire with its ends entering apertures in the periphery of the capsule, and its medial portion constituting a loop to pass through a button hole or other attachingportion of the garment to which the device is to be secured nondetachably, its detachment being only possible upon severance of the flexible member, which indicates that it has been tampered with and can no longer be relied upon as an accurate price indication.

A distinctive and important feature of my invention is the formation of this flexible metallic member in such fashion that one end is so bent as to oppose a loop or shoulder to the withdrawal of that portion of the wire included permanently within the capsule to secure the flexible member therewithin, this portion of the wire being continued around within the capsule to surround a capsule-aperture arranged to receive the normally free locking end of the flexible member, with an eye formed in such a manner that the locking endof the flexi- V ment, durability of construction and adaptability to a wide range of uses, with small opportunity for getting out of order, or its injury by intentional tampering or careless handling.

, t1on of which my improvements have been embodied, and

Fig- 2, is a detail view of the attaching member, shown separately.

In the embodiment of my invention selected for illustration and description to enableready and complete understanding of my improvements, the part designated by the reference numeral 1, is the attaching member of a price tag for a garment 2, of which latter a portion only is shown, as it forms no part of my invention and may be of, any suitable character, being illustrated with a button hole 3 through which is passed the loop of the attaching. member 1, the ends 4 and 5 of the same being locked permanently within a casing or capsule 6 when in position for use, so that the tag is non-detachable from the garment and affords a reliable support for such a price indication as that shown as marked vupon the price ticket 7, the latter being of any suitable character.

lhe attaching member 1 and lock casing 6 may be of any material and structure suitable to carry my invention into effect, and as one suitable material for the attaching member 1, I may employ wire, preferably using a single piece with integrally formed securing portions S9 and 10 to be engaged with the lock casing 6 and with each other when in operative position.

So also I may form the lock casing 6 as a metallic capsule comprising preferably a body portion chambered or recessed at 11 to receive a coiled portion 12 of the attaching member 1 which as shown in Fig. 1 lies in an aperture l2 formed in the periphery of the capsule, and is held therein by a shoulder or bend 8, one end 5 of the attaching member extending freely outside the wall of the capsule to form the attaching loop, which has near its free end a locking bend 9 to be inserted within, another peripheral aperture 13 of the capsule and to be there caught and held permanently against displacement,

As shown in Flg. 1, an lmportant feature of my invention consists in providing the attaching member-l with an eye 10 near the end of the portion coiled within the capsule 6, and so locating the eye 10 that it is normally in positionopposite the aperture 13 to receive the locking bend 9 of the attaching member, and. the material of the same being somewhat resilient the coil 12.

tendsto move the loop l0'int'o engagement with the bend 9 and insure locking action of the bend andass'isting to prevent tampering with the interiorofthe capsule.

4 ing for the price ticket7, the rim 16 being swaged'over to retainthe capsule parts in assembled relation. v p x p The devlce may thusbe formed simply of four'members, V'lZ., the capsule proper 6,

.the flexible attaching'member 1, the closure disk-15 and the pric'e' ticket 7 and asthe bends 8', 9 and --10'can be formed in the in- I tegral attaching Wire 1 while still sepa rate ,it is onlynecessary to pass the free end 9 through the aperture 12 then coil thepart l2with the loop 10in position op posite the aperture 13, insert the disk 15 and ticket 7 in 'placeand swage over the rim 15 tocomplete the device, which is then ready for attachment to the garment 2 by thrusting the free end 4 through the button 'this'specification.

hole 3 and into the aperture 13, by which operation the locking of the latter is effected automatically with the bend 9 en- 1 ga ed with the loop 10 permanently.

for illustration and description, nor in generaldo-I limit myself otherwise than set torth'iii the clalm, read in connection with What 'Iclaim' as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent'of the United States of America, is I 1 i A non-detachable tag comprising a lock casing consisting of a metallic capsule having aplurality of'peripheral apertures, a metallic closure secured thereto, and a flexible metallic attaching member coiled between said capsule and closure with a retaining portion. provided'with a detent eye opposite'oneiof' said apertures'and an attaching portion extending through another 01" said'apertures, the free end of said attachingmember having a locking bend to pass into said 'de'tenti'eye through the adjacentaperture'and to be engaged in locking relation therewith.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York, and State or New York, this 15th day of December, 1919. I

I BENJAMIN GORDON. Witnesses:

FAY S. GOLDBERG, I A. W. Ross. 

